On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> wrote: > I'm using imaplib to download and process messages from Gmail. I use > dateutil.parser.parse to parse the Date header into a datetime object, then > use the most recent date I've seen to decide where to start up on the next > run. > > Every once in awhile, I encountered a Date header I couldn't parse. The > couple I've seen so far have the same problem: two different spellings of > the timezone offset. > > Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:42:08 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:14:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
That's an RFC 822 comment attached to the Date header. I've no idea why you're seeing that - which client feels the need to adorn the date like that??? - but I think it would be appropriate to remove anything in parentheses before attempting to parse the date. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
